Leadership

Being a data platform leader requires more than market-leading technology, it requires some of the best minds in the industry. Splunk's executive team and board are leading the charge, helping Splunk and its customers get the most out of their data.

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Susan St. Ledger

President, Worldwide Field Operations

Susan St. Ledger is president of worldwide field operations for Splunk, overseeing global sales, customer success and marketing. She has over 25 years of senior leadership in high-growth technology companies, including over 11 years at Salesforce and over 12 years at Sun Microsystems. St. Ledger started her career in several technical jobs, including her first role out of college as a software engineer at the National Security Agency. Susan is a passionate learner and anchors her leadership principles in what she calls a high-growth mindset, which is required to transform and accelerate business. Continually checking items off what she calls her “Career Bucket List,” Susan has demonstrated expertise in identifying market opportunity and business transformation needs for SaaS environments. As of November 2019, Susan serves as the first independent board member of HashiCorp, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. Susan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Scranton, where she was a student athlete and graduated magna cum laude. Today, Susan continues to propel her philosophy to be a student of life and a student for life.

Jason Child

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Tim Tully

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

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Scott Morgan has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer since 2019 and our Secretary since 2018. Mr. Morgan has also led our Global Affairs initiatives since 2020. Prior to this, Mr. Morgan served as our General Counsel from 2017 to 2019, as our Vice President, Associate General Counsel from 2014 to 2017 and as our Associate General Counsel from 2012 to 2014. He also served as our Assistant Secretary from 2012 to 2018. Prior to joining us, Mr. Morgan served as legal counsel at Autodesk, Inc., a design software and services company, from 2007 to 2012. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Morgan served as legal counsel at Tellabs, Inc., a provider of access networks solutions. Mr. Morgan began his career as an associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP and at Thoits, Love, Hershberger & McClean LLP. Mr. Morgan holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Carrie Palin

Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer

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Rick Fitz

Senior Vice President and General Manager, IT Markets

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Ammar Maraqa

Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development

Ammar Maraqa has served as our Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development since 2019. Prior to this role, Mr. Maraqa served as Senior Vice President, Business Operations and Strategy from 2017 to 2019, General Manager of IoT Markets from 2018 to 2019, and Vice President, Business Operations, from 2015 to 2017. Prior to joining us, Mr. Maraqa served as Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy at Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking company, from 2008 to 2015. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Maraqa served as Executive Director, Pricing and Business Analytics and Director, Product Management at Dell Inc., an information technology and services company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Maraqa served as a senior associate at Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm. Mr. Maraqa holds a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sendur Sellakumar

Senior Vice President, Cloud and Chief Product Officer

Sendur Sellakumar has served as our Senior Vice President of Cloud and Chief Product Officer since 2019. Prior to this role, Mr. Sellakumar served as Splunk’s Senior Vice President and Vice President of Cloud from 2017 to 2019. From 2013 to 2017 he served as Vice President, Corporate Development. Before joining Splunk, Mr. Sellakumar worked in the financial services industry in investment banking from 2007 to 2013 at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sellakumar held several engineering roles at enterprise technology companies, including Qualcomm and Autodesk. Mr. Sellakumar holds a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A. from Cornell University and is based in the California Bay Area.

Haiyan Song

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security Markets

Haiyan Song has been with Splunk since 2014 and currently serves as our Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security Markets. From 2012 to 2014, Ms. Song served as Vice President and General Manager of HP ArcSight, a security and compliance management company previously acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company. From 2005 to 2012, Ms. Song served as Vice President of Engineering at ArcSight. Ms. Song previously served as Vice President of Engineering at SenSage, an event data warehousing company, from 2004 to 2005. Ms. Song started her career at IBM/Informix, a database software company. Ms. Song holds a M.S. from Florida Atlantic University and studied Computer Science in Tsinghua University in China.

Kristen Robinson

Chief People Officer

Kristen Robinson has served as our Chief People Officer since 2020. Prior to joining us, Ms. Robinson served as Chief Human Resource Officer at Pandora Media, Inc., a music discovery platform, from 2014 until its acquisition by Sirius XM Holdings Inc. in 2019. She previously served as SVP, Human Resources at Yahoo! Inc., a digital information discovery company, from 2010 to 2013. Prior to that, she served as VP, Human Resources from 2006 to 2010 at Verigy Ltd., a semiconductor test equipment company. Ms. Robinson holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. from Boston College.

Graham V. Smith

Independent Chairman of Splunk Inc.

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Doug Merritt

President and Chief Executive Officer

Doug Merritt has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board since 2015. Previously, Merritt served as Senior Vice President of Field Operations at Splunk from 2014 to 2015. Prior to joining Splunk, Merritt served as Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking company, from 2012 to 2014. From 2011 to 2012, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Baynote, Inc., a behavioral personalization and marketing technology company. Previously, Merritt served in a number of executive roles and as a member of the extended Executive Board at SAP A.G., from 2005 to 2011. From 2001 to 2004, Merritt served as Group Vice President and General Manager of the Human Capital Management Product Division at PeopleSoft Inc. (acquired by Oracle Corporation). He also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Icarian, Inc. (since acquired by Workstream Corp.), a cloud-based company, from 1996 to 2001. Merritt holds a B.S. from The University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Elisa Steele

Chairwoman, Namely

Elisa Steele has served as a member of our board of directors since 2017. Since 2019, Ms. Steele has served as Chair, Board of Directors at Namely, Inc., a financial and human capital management software company, where she served as Chief Executive Officer from 2018 to 2019. Ms. Steele previously served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Jive Software, Inc., a collaboration software company, which was acquired in June 2017. Ms. Steele was a member of the Jive Software executive leadership team since 2014. Prior to joining Jive Software, Ms. Steele served as Chief Marketing Officer and Corporate Vice President, Consumer Apps & Services at Microsoft Corporation, a worldwide provider of software, services and solutions, and Chief Marketing Officer of Skype, an Internet communications company, from 2012-2014. Ms. Steele also has held executive leadership positions Yahoo! Inc. and NetApp, Inc. Ms. Steele has served as a member of the board of directors of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., a learning and human capital management software company, since 2018. Ms. Steele holds a B.S. from the University of New Hampshire and an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University.

John G. Connors

Managing Partner, Ignition Partners

John G. Connors has served as a member of our board of directors since 2007. Since 2005, Mr. Connors has been a managing partner at Ignition Partners, LLC, a venture capital firm. Prior to joining Ignition Partners, Mr. Connors served in various management positions at Microsoft Corporation from 1989 to 2005, including most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1999 to 2005. Mr. Connors has served as a member of the board of directors of NIKE, Inc. since 2005. Mr. Connors holds a B.A. from the University of Montana.

Mark Carges

Independent Board Member and Former CTO of eBay Inc.

Mark Carges has served as a member of our board of directors since 2014. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer of eBay Inc., an e-commerce company, from September 2009 to September 2014. Mr. Carges was a member of the eBay Inc. leadership team since September 2008, overseeing eBay Inc.’s platform strategy, as well as having overall responsibility for technology, software development and site operations for eBay.com. Prior to joining eBay Inc., Mr. Carges was Executive Vice President, Products and General Manager, for the Business Interaction Division at BEA Systems, a provider of enterprise application infrastructure software which was acquired by Oracle in April 2008. During more than a decade at BEA, Mr. Carges held a variety of senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Carges began his career at Bell Labs as one of the original architects of Tuxedo, software for constructing highly scalable transaction processing applications. Mr. Carges has served as a member of the board of directors of Veeva Systems Inc., a provider of industry cloud solutions for the global life sciences industry, since 2017. Mr. Carges holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS from New York University.

Patricia B. Morrison

Independent Board Member and Former Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Cardinal Health

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Sara Baack

Chief Product Officer, Equinix, Inc.

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Sri Viswanath

Chief Technology Officer, Atlassian

Sri Viswanath has served as a member of our board of directors since 2019. Since 2016, Mr. Viswanath has served as Chief Technology Officer at Atlassian Corporation Plc, a provider of team collaboration and productivity software. Prior to joining Atlassian, Mr. Viswanath served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations from April 2013 to October 2014 and Chief Technology Officer from October 2014 to January 2016 at Groupon, Inc., an e-commerce company. From 2012 to 2013, he served as Vice President of Research and Development for mobile computing at VMware, Inc., a provider of cloud and virtualization software and services. His previous experience also includes senior-level product positions at Glam Media, Inc. and Ning Inc. (acquired by Glam Media). He began his career in engineering roles at Sun Microsystems, Inc.. Mr. Viswanath previously served on the board of directors of SendGrid, Inc., a provider of a cloud-based customer communication platform (acquired by Twilio Inc.), from 2017 to 2019. Mr. Viswanath holds a B.E. from Bangalore University, and a M.S. from each of Clemson University and Stanford University.

Stephen G. Newberry

Independent Board Member and Former Chairman, Lam Research Corporation

Stephen G. Newberry has served as a member of our board of directors since 2013. Mr. Newberry served as a director of Lam Research Corporation, a supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services, from 2005 to 2019, and served as the Chairman of the board of Lam Research from 2012 to 2019. He served as Lam Research's Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2011, President from 1998 to 2010, and Chief Operating Officer from 1997 to 2005. Prior to joining Lam Research, Mr. Newberry held various executive positions at Applied Materials, Inc., a provider of manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar industries. Mr. Newberry previously served on the board of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), the semiconductor industry's trade organization and on the board of directors of Nanometrics Incorporated, a provider of process control metrology and inspection systems. Mr. Newberry holds a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy and completed an executive education program at Harvard Business School.

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